Nagalingam Shanmugalingam is a Sri Lankan Tamil sociologist, academic and former vice-chancellor of the University of Jaffna.
Shanmugalingam obtained a BEd degree from the University of Colombo.
[1] He later received MA and PhD degrees from the University of Jaffna.
[2] He was later head of the Department of Sociology and Political Science at the university.
[5] Shanmugalingam stood for re-election but in March 2011 President Mahinda Rajapaksa appointed Vasanthy Arasaratnam to the post of vice-chancellor.